IACWE started almost 2 years ago and it has been a fun time.  We’ve grown to amass a fairly sizable audience filled with diverse ideas etc.  We started our website about a year ago because it’s easier to put our full thoughts out on a webpage and we made a few $’s via advertising. We’re doing better [...]

You an see the full page ad in PDF form HERE. US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation and Jewish Voice for Peace have paid for a full page ad in Roll Call newspaper which is read by the 20,000 Capital Hill staffers and elected officials who work in Congress on a daily basis.  Up till now – [...]

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton got testy on Capitol Hill Wednesday in response to a query from Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), who called into question her department’s accounting of the Sept. 11, 2012, attack in Benghazi, Libya. Facing expected scrutiny from Republicans during her testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Clinton appeared to take exception [...]

“While nearly a billion people go hungry, Goldman Sachs bankers are feeding their own bonuses by betting on the price of food. Financial speculation is fuelling food price spikes and Goldman Sachs is the No 1 culprit.” ~Christine Haigh, World Development Movement  Some will point to ever increasing food costs as their proof of inflation caused [...]

“If you strip out the stimulus, discretionary spending over the last few years has been quite modest and is scheduled to go to levels we haven’t experienced in modern times.” ~Robert Reischauer, a former director of the CBO Trying to explain the federal deficit to conservatives is a challenge; very few people actually understand the [...]

Republicans have two years – or less – to turn away from becoming America’s Christian Confederate Party. They can continue on the course of strict reliance on Christian fundamentalist conservatives with all the baggage that brings: homophobia, racism, subjugating women, opposing public secular education, fear and hatred of science, the endless mobius loopiness of 14th [...]

 ”If you add up all the federal and you look at the disability and the unemployment and the Social Security and the state, my tax rate’s 62, 63 percent.  So I’ve got to make some decisions on what I’m going to do.” ~Golfer Phil Mickelson, 7th highest paid athlete in the world I always find [...]

In Pennsylvania, one local Republican Committee head has chosen to express his discontent with President Obama‘s reelection and second inauguration in a very public, and some would say controversial, way. Brent Kovac, leader of the local Republican Party chapter, hung an American flag upside down during the inauguration ceremony yesterday. The symbol usually indicates distress by soldiers [...]

Pardon the very straightforward headline – some things need to be said.  For those who follow IACWE – you’ll know that we view the Israeli government’s actions on par with an apartheid state.  We continuously denounce the actions of the Israeli government … over and over and over; you can see a sample or our [...]

“And what I see them doing is saying, ‘Okay, we know we’re never going to be popular again, so we’re going to have to rig it.” ~Chris Matthews   There is this purveying sense of false equivalency that “they’re all the same”.  In some ways – both the Democrats and Republicans are the same … [...]